Welcome to the era of Art Market Dysmorphia
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A unified theory of why no one seems to agree on the health of the art business
Like this undulating reflection of skyscrapers and high-rises, what people see in the art market often no longer lines up with what’s really there. Photo by Zooey Li on Unsplash Welcome back to The Gray Market! In today’s post, I try to get to the bottom of why so many people who make their living in art seem to disagree so violently about how things in the business have been going lately. As a reminder: TGM is a completely solo, twice-weekly project funded entirely by paying subscribers who, like me, probably care way too much about the surreal effects triggered by the full-speed…
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